diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period … distance to the North; ii) an increase in LA's ETG to East Asia's level raises LA's TFP by some 100% and accounts for about 75 …% of its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) raising LA's education to East Asia's level has a larger impact on TFP and on the TFP …

America – specifically South America and Mexico (SAM) – and East Asia, over the 32 years preceding the Great Recession (1976 … (closest) North; ii) the East Asia – SAM education gap's impact equals that of trade plus governance; iii) an increase in SAM …'s ETG to East Asia's level raises TFP by over 100 percent and fully accounts for its TFP gap with East Asia; and iv) South …

growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … private consumption to GDP in Asia and, during this decade, has recorded the lowest rate of employment growth relative to GDP … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …

specification of TFP is based on a "neo-Schumpeterian" empirical specification in which productivity improvements depend on growth … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both … to reduce the productivity performance of firms. The negative effect is particularly strong on firms characterised by an …

) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a dynamic system of macrolabour equations to evaluate the slope of …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … monetary expansion and productivity speedup of the roaring 90s were both responsible for the significant lowering of the …

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …